An iPhone App To Help You Pretend You Have A Social Life

I'm sorry, you'll have to excuse me for a moment. I'm quite in demand as you can see by all these message notifications on my iPhone. Obviously things like this can't be faked and my Settings app really needs me.

OK, so maybe I used an app called iNotifyYou to fake all those notifications just to make all of you jealous. It's just tough to resist this cute app which lets you alter the notification numbers for any app on your home screen—or to just plain clear them all at once.

Pretty useful for those times when some notifications just refuse to clear and it's got potential for some humour. Worth $US2? [iTunes]

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